betterbib VS rebiber

Compare betterbib vs rebiber and see what are their differences.

betterbib

:green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies. (by texworld)

rebiber

A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology). (by yuchenlin)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
betterbib rebiber
3 2
804 2,441
0.4% -
2.8 5.6
about 2 months ago 3 months ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

betterbib

Posts with mentions or reviews of betterbib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

rebiber

Posts with mentions or reviews of rebiber. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.
  • [D] How to find conference citation from arxiv
    1 project | /r/MachineLearning | 21 Dec 2022
    Check out rebiber
  • BibTeX Tidy
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021
    This is great! Especially nice to be able to remove entire fields.

    Relatedly, here are a couple of tools to ensure that references are complete (e.g. updating arXiv papers to their published versions, mostly for computer science papers):

    - https://github.com/yuchenlin/rebiber (CLI, web interface)

    - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ga384/bibfix.html (only *ACL papers, web interface with diff, disclaimer: mine)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing betterbib and rebiber you can also consider the following projects:

zotero-better-bibtex - Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts

biblint - BibLint -- a system for fixing bibtex databases

LaTeX-OCR - pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code.

allmytexs

VSCode-LaTeX-Inkscape - ✍️ A way to integrate LaTeX, VS Code, and Inkscape in macOS

jabref - Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases

.config - NeoVim configuration optimized for writing in LaTeX

zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.